Migration: A Crisis Europe Can’t Keep Out
Migration: A Crisis Europe Can’t Keep Out

Author(s): Benjamin Tallis
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů
Keywords: EU Member States; refugees; migration crisis; external dimension; politics;
Summary/Abstract: Difficulties in persuading EU Member States (EUMS) to act in solidarity with each other – or with refugees – have led to a focus on the ‘external dimensions’ of the migration crisis. This has created a misleading impression of the crisis as external to, rather created by, the EU and EUMS. Equally misleadingly, this framing suggests that the crisis can be dealt with outside, rather within the EU – generally by trying to stop the flow of migrants to Europe. This policy paper challenges this framing and argues that the migration crisis is one of Europe’s own making – and one which must be addressed, primarily, at home.

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